XIAOMING WANG (See X. Wang et al., “A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines,” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, doi: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666)
Image of the Day: Giant Otters
Paleontologists uncover a nearly complete cranium of Siamogale melilutra, a 6.24 million-year-old otter species that was as large as a modern wolf.
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